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Chickenpoet looks like a mermaid as she scoops the minnow net, serenity emanating from her contenance while she sits in the shallow breakers.

Beachcombing 2010 « Fairegarden 2010

The Burgundian poet Martin le Franc (c.1441) and theorist Tinctoris who worked at Naples (c.1475) were aware that with Dunstable, Dufay and Binchois a new musical era had begun and that the new sound, the frisque concordance from England, had given Continental music a contenance angloise.

Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

Winter blooms, colorful foliage and a sweet contenance are the reason Faire Garden is still on the search for more to add to the vision.

Heaths and Heathers « Fairegarden 2008

Do you think one of the worlds three superpowers would contenance an invasion on their border?

The morning after the debate. Ann Althouse 2008

And than entrethe that other secunde thousand, and dothe right so, in the same manere of array and contenance, as did the firste; and aftre the thridde, and than the fourthe; and non of hem seythe not o word.

The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

And than entrethe that other secunde thousand, and dothe right so, in the same manere of array and contenance, as did the firste; and aftre the thridde, and than the fourthe; and non of hem seythe not o word.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

He was about fifty-years old, but with a closely shaven face, a healthy complexion, a relatively clear eye, he had a cheeful contenance.

The 13 Culprits Simenon, Georges, 1903- 2002

-- Quelle gravité dans la contenance des membres! quelle simplicité dans leurs discours! quelle candeur dans leurs discussions! quelle bienfaisance! quelle énergie dans leur résolution!

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

The said Maister George spaced up and doune behynd the hie altar more then half ane houre: his verray contenance and visage declared the greaf and alteratioun of his mynd.

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

These thingis understand by the said Alexander, alsweall by informatioun of his freindis and familliaris, as by the strange contenance of the King unto him, provydit the nixt way to avoid the fury of a blynded Prince: and so, in his habite, [104] hie departed the realme, [105] and cuming to

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox